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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Treasure Chest Thursday

When I started my family history research, libraries were my treasure chest. They still are to a certain extent. I love packing up my notebooks, and driving into the Genealogy library of Montgomery or Clayton Library of Houston. I know that there are so many pages of books that I haven't even scraped the edges of. My favorite thing to do is to walk down the aisle of the State I am interested in and let a book reach out an grab my attention. So many times, in an obscure place of the book, will be a clue or even an answer about my ancestor.

Today, I have a new treasure chest that I love and have to watch out that it doesn't become instead a Pandora's box and overcome my senses and time. It is the internet, twitter, Google search, Ancestry,
and Family Search to name a few. Tonight, I received a treasure from The Olive Tree Genealogy . Well technically it was Twitter, Lorine had twittered a piece about finding ships lists. When I went to look, I was brought to remeberance of Stephen P Morse's One-Step-Webpages for searching the ship arrivals and lists. I love that site! It had been bookmarked on my computer that crashed (a good reason for back up [Wiggling of eyebrows and a big smile]) and I had forgotten it because my focus has not been on immigration. I have been caught up in the Mexican War. Thanks Lorine!And a great big thanks to those that have developed such a wealth on information links for genealogy.

3 comments:

That is so cool. I love that you can go sift through the library and find old documents. My family has only been in Vancouver since the early 1900's so very little documentation to be found - its all back east or in England. Some day.

Hi Hummer...you can pick up the new Kreativ Blogger award over at Flipside. I love your blog and all the kind comments you have given me. http://lindasflipside.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-kreative-blogger-award-thanks-lori.html

Hummer, I love how the universe works --- seemingly without being bidden a new/old idea, thought or piece of information comes to us. Thanks for reminding me of that facet of the world in which we live.